BEREAVEMENT & FUNERAL SERVICES
Psychology for the places where children experience loss, change and remembrance.
We work with bereavement services and professionals to bring psychological understanding into the experiences of children, young people and families following bereavement and other significant losses.
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Training & CPD · Reflective Practice · Consultancy
A KINDER SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
When health becomes part of childhood, psychology matters too.
Children and families living with illness, disability, medical needs or significant change may be navigating far more than appointments and treatment.
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They may be adapting to new identities, changes in independence, uncertainty, altered family relationships, disrupted education, hospital experiences or differences in how they participate in everyday life.
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Psychological understanding can help teams think beyond the diagnosis — and consider the whole child, family and context.
Training & CPD
Practical training for teams supporting children and families through illness, disability, difference, loss and change.
Reflective Practice
Protected space for professionals to reflect on complex work, relationships, uncertainty and the emotional demands of supporting children and families.
Consultancy
Psychological thinking applied to policies, processes, environments, communication, pathways and everyday practice.
TRAINING & CPD
Psychological understanding for the many ways children experience grief and loss.
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60–90 minute CPD sessions
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Half-day or full-day training
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​Bespoke training
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Whole school approaches
Our training helps professionals develop psychologically informed approaches to supporting children and families through grief, loss and change.
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TRAINING CAN INCLUDE:
Understanding Children's Grief
How children understand, experience and express grief across development.
How Children Communicate Grief
Looking beyond words to how grief may be expressed through behaviour, play, relationships and everyday experiences.
Talking with Children About Death
Supporting honest, developmentally appropriate communication around death and dying.
Different Experiences of Loss
Considering how circumstances, relationships, development and previous experiences can shape grief.
Supporting Families Through Bereavement
Understanding how bereavement can affect family relationships, roles, communication and everyday life.
Grief, Identity & Change
Exploring how loss can affect children's sense of self, belonging, relationships and understanding of their world.
Remembering & Continuing Bonds
Exploring the different ways children may maintain connections with someone who has died.
Staff Wellbeing & Reflective Practice
Creating space for professionals to reflect on the emotional demands of supporting children and families through grief and loss.
Download the Bereavement &
Funeral Services Training Guide
Explore the full programme, session content, formats and ways of working.
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
A space to stop, think and process
Supporting children and families through bereavement can be emotionally demanding. Reflective practice provides protected space for professionals to step back, consider different perspectives and think about their work with children and families.
Better Practice
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​Understand children's grief and complex situations from different perspectives.
Staff Wellbeing
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Make space to process the emotional demands of bereavement work.
Confidence & Clarity
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Work through uncertainty and feel clearer about possible next steps.
ONE-OFF & REGULAR
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From £100 per 60-min session for up to 10 members of staff
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Online across UK or in person across East Sussex
Ongoing Learning
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Turn reflection into changes in everyday practice.
Invest in reflective practice for your setting and team
CONSULTANCY FOR BEREAVEMENT & FUNERAL SERVICES
A psychological lens for understanding children, families and life after loss
The Conditions to Flourish framework helps teams consider children's psychological experiences alongside the relationships, environments and systems around them.
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It can be used to think about how bereavement services and professional practice can help children and families understand what has happened, receive the support they need, experience safety and belonging, and sustain support as life changes over time.
Understand
How well do we understand how children experience and make sense of loss?
Support
Does the support around children meet their emotional and psychological needs
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What children may be experiencing emotionally following a bereavement
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How children communicate grief, distress and uncertainty
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Children's perspectives and sense-making around death and loss
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How age, development and previous experiences may shape grief
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How relationships and family circumstances influence children's understanding of loss
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Whether services and professional practice reflect children's lived experiences of bereavement
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What children may need from the adults supporting them emotionally as well as practically
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How children are supported to understand and talk about death
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How communication can support children's questions, feelings and sense-making
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How family relationships and changing roles may affect children's experience of grief
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How support can be adapted to individual development, circumstances and ways of expressing grief
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Whether existing support reflects what children and families say they need.
Flourish
Do children feel safe, connected and able to keep living alongside their grief?
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What helps children feel psychologically safe following a significant loss
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How bereavement may affect identity, belonging and relationships
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How children can continue to participate in everyday life while carrying their grief
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How environments and relationships can support connection, stability and emotional wellbeing
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How children can remember and maintain meaningful connections with someone who has died
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Whether children and families feel seen, understood and able to be themselves alongside their grief
Sustain
How do we sustain support as children and families continue to adapt to loss?
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How psychological understanding can become part of everyday bereavement practice
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How teams develop shared understanding of children's grief and emotional needs
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How staff can reflect on the emotional demands of bereavement work
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How learning from children and families can inform ongoing practice and service development
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How support can continue as children's understanding and circumstances change over time
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How services can review, adapt and sustain psychologically informed approaches